The remote would cost more than the Apple TV box itself!
Seems like anything around the house will be subjected to the ultimate test. Just cohabiting with children is bad for anything "touch" oriented.

The remote would cost more than the Apple TV box itself!
Seems like anything around the house will be subjected to the ultimate test. Just cohabiting with children is bad for anything "touch" oriented.May survive the occasional spilled milk, sputum, Soft Drink and etc., etc. but it tends to be costly to keep it safely useable and indestructible in those environs.
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its more then that though. I pretty much know most of the buttons on the remote without even looking.
volume, channel, power, input, DVR, on demand.
There would be no way for a touch screen to replicate this without a physical button.
My two biggest problems with such a remote would be, a) the short battery life (a remote should survive months, if not years on the same charge) and b) the delay, while the remote connects with the AT.
I use my iPhone as a remote for my Sonos, and once the phone is in standby the connection between the device and the phone is lost. It takes several seconds to then re-connect. It would drive me mad, when this would happen with a TV remote and changing channel or volume is constantly delayed. Keeping a constant connection between remote and AT would seriously jeopardize my first point.
Oh please, I absolutely concede that tactile buttons are a plus for a remote, but a remote becomes nowhere near being useless if it is touchscreen based.
It's really just the age-old "I don't want to change what I already do" no more floppy discs song. Some people will kick and scream all the way but eventually get used to the new way.
I know. What happened to Cook's promise to release new products "throughout 2014" rather than release everything within the space of a few weeks like they did last year and the year before. I know it's only mid March but I haven't heard about anything on the horizon before WWDC in June.
That's the difference with Steve. He knew that you had to maintain people's interest in the brand by releasing new products month by month with lots of little hints and leaks in between. That kept the buzz going all year round. We might as well hibernate for 10 months of the year with Cook in charge as everything comes out in Sept and Oct. Makes the rest of the year bloody boring if like me you're an Apple news/products junkie.
Steve had a way of making me excited to check the Apple website every Tuesday. It's not the same anymore.
Good grief. Its called an iPhone. Try finding an AppleTV owner that doesn't have one.
I mean that mockup/entire article is SO ABSURD it just perfectly points out how clueless people really are...
"wouldn't it be nice if the AppleTV remote had bluetooth and touch screen and Siri and keyboard and blah blah blah...just like an iPhone"
Just. Use. Your. iPhone. It's all there already, inside the Remote App.
I DO hope Apple does a slightly better job with the Remote App itself in the future, but that is neither here nor there...
Apple is already shipping the exact remote that they should...Except I would go back to plastic instead of aluminum so that it doesn't disappear into the couch so easily.
I hate iTunes remote app because it feels less integrated than Music app inside my iPhone whenever I want AirPlay my musics.
Unlock phone - open Remote app - wait for connect - lagged response and database reading.
There's nothing wrong with the current Apple TV remote button setup. The issue is the size of the remote and the design of the button themselves is pretty bad. There is no depth to the remote and the sides are sharp so it is really painful to hold. Even the buttons are so flat they are not very easy to use. A touchscreen would be even worse.
How about a better way, instead of just a new way? Nothing about this bogus concept says better. It's just another iteration of the same old broken way, produced by people with very limited imaginations. It's a solution in search of a problem. It deserves no attention at all.
Let us ignore the possibilities which are available with WiFi remotes and let us use infrared remotes for the next 50 years. Stop all innovation!yuck.
why build a remote like that...
How about a better way, instead of just a new way? Nothing about this bogus concept says better. It's just another iteration of the same old broken way, produced by people with very limited imaginations. It's a solution in search of a problem. It deserves no attention at all.
Let us ignore the possibilities which are available with WiFi remotes and let us use infrared remotes for the next 50 years. Stop all innovation!
The remote would cost more than the Apple TV box itself!
yuck.
why build a remote like that...they already have a similar remote...your pre-purchased iPhone/ipod.